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Mission: Impossible

Oh, watch out, Lorraine’s taking control of the show. Should be interesting. She certainly has the assets to motivate people… (Edit: Please note Bud’s watch is pointing to 4:20… think of the angle of his wrist and you’ll see I got it right. 🙂 )

Okay, had to toss in a whole bunch of spy references in this one. From Archer to Bond, I cover a number of them. This page was scripted as Jeff and Bud bitching friendly at each other in the jail cell until Lorraine comes to bail them out, but we had so much fun with the Man from U.N.C.L.E. stuff last week (thus the B.U.D. acronym), I was inspired to re-write this page. I started coloring it using only gray tones (a real pain in the ass) and suddenly had that “DOH!” moment and realized Photoshop can convert it to B&W for me. Love Photoshop… say no more.

So, I’m pulling out the original TV Theme, not the one from the movies. Movies were fine, if you like Tom Cruise and over the top effects. I’m not a Cruise fan, but did at least see the first film.

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It’s…Danger Bud! (Not to be confused with DANGER WILL ROBINSON!) (Or Danger Mouse.)

Lorraine looks painfully hawt. And speaking of pain, you’ve done a magnificent finger-slip there in the blurb: ‘pain staking’. It’s amazing how putting one little snippet of whitespace into the word *painstaking* turns it into imagery central! Dude, we can stake that pain and kill it dead! Quick, sell the idea to some painkiller manufacturer…

I could sooooo get into role-playing The Man From B.U.D. Oh. Wait. I think I have, on occasion … 😉

Still getting a strong Adam West flash in my head when your players are delivering lines like “Quiet! Agent Jay.” Strong urge to see Robyn dancing the Batusi (google “batusi dance” for video, for anyone wondering). 😀

I’ve said it before & I’ll say it again: love the black & white noir look. Especially panels 1&2 today; such a Man with the Bold, Big’gun kinda thing. Bud looking sharp and packed. Lolz @Jeff with such a fresh-faced side-kick sort of Kato look.

“We women” the plural … so more than just Lorraine’s considerable assets applied to the case. As it should be. Looking forward to see how that was played.

Yeah, I could do a whole “tripping” out story of the two of them in Spy mode and do it all in B&W… would be cool. Ah, if only I had the time. I know, you make the time, but I gotta eat too.

Bud sounding like Adam West? Hmmm… never really thought about how the characters sound (well, not too hard at least). Bud should sound like, well, me. I’ve always thought Lorraine’s singing voice should be a cross of Ann Wilson and Grace Slick. I’m sure that will stir up all types of comments…
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Oh, not the tone & sound of his voice. Just the delivery. I made a similar comment about Officer Janice on 26 Sep with “Nice moves, Robyn!” It’s such a deadpan, pulp-comic style that it just seems to fit some of the lines you’ve written in combination with the expressions and general artwork on several occasions.

If Bud should really sound like you, might be time to hear your voice on a youtube video or something ..? 😉

Saw your take on the Slick/Wilson-ish voice for Lorraine in other comments. I think it’s a nice fit. Personally I gravitate more in the Grace Slick direction (especially the Jefferson Airplane years, not Starship so much); maybe rub a bit of Joplin on to sultry her up even more. I lean folksy-blues kinda stuff wrapped around Allman Bros & Grateful Dead style psychedelic rock jam-band, and Little Feat/Doobie Bros jazz-rock for the opening act.

I’ve often wondered what Robyn would sound like if she could carry the lede for a tune or two. I can’t generally sing for spit. As a child I had several recurring sinus-ear infections that pretty much ruined my ability to keep my own voice in tune, although I have virtually a sound engineer’s ear for listening, recording, analysis & editing. But, I’ve been known to get through a couple of songs without totally sucking (usually Cat Stevens or something similarly simple & of limited range). Or maybe it was just the beer … anyway, the thought crossed my mind Robyn might fall into such a category, but with more opportunity to practice in a music-immersive environment.

I think Robyn would have to fall into the category that drummers can’t sing… but you never know… I really hadn’t thought of her voice.

As for me, you can hear me on the Webcomic Alliance podcast as I’m the “host” and do the introductions and such nonsense. It’s a podcast for us comic artists and probably dull for anyone else, but I do edit some funny introductions. You can hear one here:

Yaaaay! MI Theme! Lalo Schifrin is one of the best imo for move & tv themes, & deserves to be in the same light as his better known contemporaries like John Williams,Henry Mancini, & Jerry Goldsmith. Great 420 slide in there, Byron, altho some of the younger readers may not know what 420 is a reference to… While you’re still on the Man From UNCLE kick & seein’ Loraine show up to save the day, do you remember the spin off, Girl From UNCLE? I remember watchin a couple, maybe 3 episodes, & being totally bored by it, & the american tv public must have thought the same thing as it only lasted one season.

I don’t recall ever seeing the “Girl from U.N.C.L.E.” but I don’t see how I would have missed it… so it must have been soooo bad, I’ve blocked it out. TV Networks think they can spin off a TV show like that (it’s been done a million times) but they forget it’s not just the premise of the show, but the chemistry of the actors, et al. TV Executives see actors as a huge pain in the ass and a waste of money… which explains all the “reality” shows popping up… no big actor fees to pay.

Depends on your version of ‘bad’. I saw one episode somewhere once – it seemed like they were trying to copy The Avengers (the Mrs Peel ones, not the Marvel franchise!), but not quite hitting the amusingly-camp button hard enough. The lead actor (er um Stefanie something…?) was fairly easy on the eye though.

As does the comic creator rock tuxedos… or suits or whatever… I clean up nicely if I say so myself. But if I’m not wearing jeans and gym shoes, I’m not happy, so most days I look kinda … well… not grown up yet.
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With you there, Uncle! Though not so much on the Cruise-era remake because it got dumbed down into 4/4 time for the benefit of the rhythm-impaired club dodos. Shame, that, as the original time signature was a large part of the charm o_0

The miracles of spy tech were everyone believing there would be enough power in that watch without either killing Bud or giving him cancer…..That said, the cancer is worth it for a high frequency unidirectional sonic wave disruptor on my wrist….just need to find those earplugs….

In one of the Bond films, the “magic” watch was a magnet strong enough to pull a boat from some 30 feet away toward Bond. Um, what? But, you go along that there’s some type of mini-nuclear reactor in that watch and eventually Bond’s hand will fall off from the exposure to radiation… the price of being a super-spy!
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